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The following events occurred in May 1971:

May 1, 1971: Amtrak begins operations for all U.S. passenger train service
May 25, 1971: Soviet Tu-144 supersonic plane first brought to the West
May 11, 1971: The margarita becomes the first mass-produced cocktail [1]
May 20, 1971: U.S. Boeing 2707 "SST" supersonic plane development cancelled

May 1, 1971 (Saturday)

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  • Amtrak, the U.S. National Railroad Passenger Corporation, began its inter-city rail passenger service in the United States, operating as a successor to the passenger services of private railroad companies that had operated in the U.S. for more than a century. "The semi-nationalization of the passenger rails," a reporter noted, "was ushered in without fanfare or trouble in most cities."[2] The first official Amtrak service began at 12:05 a.m. as the Metroliner departed Penn Station in New York City on its run to Washington.[3] When it began operating passenger service, Amtrak operated 178 passenger trains and served more than 300 U.S. cities.[4]
  • The government of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) announced a four-day amnesty period for all guerrillas who agreed to surrender to the local authorities before May 5, promising that rebels who did participate would be taken, unharmed, to the capital at Colombo and made to participate in "re-education" classes at university. Starting May 6, Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike added, rebels who refused to surrender would be hunted down. She reported that 250 rebels had laid down their weapons.[5]
  • American hijacker Raphael Minichiello was released from a prison in Rome, 18 months after hijacking TWA Flight 85 on October 31, 1969 over California and commandeering the Boeing 707 to Italy. Minichiello, a U.S. Marine who had boarded the aircraft on the day he was scheduled to face a court-martial, had faced a minimum sentence of 20 years in a U.S. prison for air piracy. The Italian government had refused to allow his extradition, since the crime took place five months before Italy had entered into an international extradition treaty and because of its own law prohibiting extradition for any crime where the death penalty was applicable.[6]
  • The Angry Brigade set off a bomb at the Biba store in London.[7]
  • The Kentucky Derby was won by Venezuelan-trained racehorse Canonero II, with Venezuelan jockey Gustavo Ávila riding.[8]
  • Born: Ajith Kumar, Indian actor, in Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh[9]
  • Died: Glenda Farrell, 66, U.S. actress, from lung cancer[10]

May 2, 1971 (Sunday)

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  • Egypt's President Anwar Sadat fired one of his two Vice Presidents, Aly Sabri, but gave no immediate explanation for the removal. Sabri, who had participated with Gamal Abdel Nasser and with Sadat in the 1952 revolution that deposed King Farouk, had been openly critical of Sadat's pursuit of a federation with Libya and Syria.[11]
  • In Ceylon, left-wing guerrillas under the command of Colonel Fernando Mahendran launched a series of assaults against public buildings while the four-day long amnesty continued.[12]
  • Police in Washington, D.C., began at dawn to disperse 30,000 anti-war protesters who had camped along the Potomac River after listening to an all-night rock concert. The move had been made in anticipation of announced plans to disrupt traffic on Monday.[13]
  • Died:
    • Olaf Barda, 61, first Norwegian International Master in chess
    • John Horne Blackmore, Canadian teacher, 81, first leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada

May 3, 1971 (Monday)

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Erich Honecker (left) and Walter Ulbricht (right) greeting Czechoslovakian leader Husak[14]
  • Walter Ulbricht resigned as the General Secretary of East Germany's ruling Communist Party, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands or SED), but retained the position of head of state.[15] Speaking to the SED's Central Committee, the 77-year old Ulbricht, who had led the party since 1946, cited his age and his health as the reasons for leaving, and named Erich Honecker as his successor. He continued in office as Chairman of the State Council as the nominal head of state. After being approved by the Central Committee, Honecker made his first speech as the nation's new de facto leader and said that he would continue the hard-line policies against dissent that had been implemented by Ulbricht,[16]
  • The Harris Poll announced that a recent survey had found that 60% of Americans opposed the Vietnam War, based on the question of whether the U.S. should withdraw its troops even if it means that South Vietnam would fall to the Communists. For the first time since the question was asked, a majority of Americans (58% to 29%) agreed that it was "morally wrong" for the U.S. to be fighting in Vietnam. The poll was taken of 1,500 households between April 12 and April 15. Pollster Louis Harris wrote that "The tide of American public opinion has now turned decisively against the war in Indo-China."[17]
  • Anti-war activists attempted to disrupt government business in Washington, D.C., a day after police had begun dispersing 30,000.[18][19] Police and military units arrested as many as 12,000, most of whom were later released.[20][21]
  • In London, the Daily Mail, first published in 1896, was relaunched as a tabloid. The new format came with the merger of the staffs of the Daily Mail and the defunct Daily Sketch.[22]
  • All Things Considered, National Public Radio's flagship news program, was broadcast for the first time, starting at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on 90 NPR stations.[23] Robert Conley served as the first host of the 90-minute program.[24]
  • General Lon Nol agreed to continue as the nominal Premier of the Khmer Republic (formerly Cambodia) after having announced his resignation for reasons of health on April 20. After an unsuccessful 13-day search during which nobody was willing to serve as Prime Minister, General Lon agreed to continue in office, although he delegated most executive power to Lieutenant General Sisowath Sirik Matak.[25]
  • Born: Douglas Carswell, British politician who, in 2014, became the first candidate of the UK Independence Party to be elected to the House of Commons [26]
  • Died: Joel Lieber, 35, American novelist, was killed after jumping from the window of his apartment in New York City.[27]

May 4, 1971 (Tuesday)

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  • Thirty-one people were killed in Canada, when their homes in the village of Saint-Jean-Vianney, Quebec were swallowed by a sinkhole and then buried by mud and debris.[28][29] After a heavy rainstorm, the ground beneath 35 houses gave way. Most of the victims were employees of the Aluminum Company of Canada and their families.
  • John Froines, sought by the FBI as the leader of the "Mayday Tribe" and accused of conspiracy to interfere with the civil rights of commuters and federal employees as part of a protest, was arrested 15 minutes after an agent had spotted him. To the surprise of FBI agents, Mr. Froines had been recognized while he was addressing a crowd of thousands of anti-war demonstrators and standing directly beneath the office window of U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell.[30]
  • Four home-made bombs were found in the vicinity of Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School in the UK. The authorities at first thought these belonged to the Angry Brigade [31] but concluded that the explosives were more likely to be the work of students who had devised improvised bombs as an experiment on a school trip to Norway in 1970.

May 5, 1971 (Wednesday)

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The Mary Rose
 
A model of Herod's Palace

May 6, 1971 (Thursday)

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  • The day after the expiration of the four day amnesty period for anti-government guerrillas in Sri Lanka (called Ceylon at the time), the Ceylonese Army began a major offensive against the People's Liberation Front.[37]
  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned American consumers against eating swordfish after finding that more than 95% of 853 samples of the food tested were contaminated with excessive levels of mercury.[38]
  • The state of North Carolina ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote, more than 50 years after it had taken effect in 1920.[39] The new vote on the amendment was approved unanimously by the North Carolina State Senate. Lieutenant Governor Pat Taylor, in his capacity as president of the senate, called for the vote by saying "All those who favor women, signify by saying 'aye'." [40] At the time, the only state not to have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment was Mississippi, which would finally approve it in 1984.
  • All ten passengers and two crewmembers aboard Apache Airlines Flight 33 were killed when the right wing of the De Havilland 104 Dove airplane fell off during the plane's flight from Tucson to Phoenix. The plane crashed onto farmland 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Coolidge, Arizona.[41]
  • Died: Dickie Valentine (stage name for Richard Bryce), 41, English singer, was killed in a car crash at Glangrwyney in Wales near Crickhowell[42]

May 7, 1971 (Friday)

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  • The 3rd U.S. Marine Expeditionary Brigade ceased all ground and air operations in Vietnam and prepared for its deactivation.[43]
  • Owners of the teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the rival American Basketball Association (ABA) reached an agreement in New York City to merge the two leagues into a 28-team circuit of 17 NBA teams and 11 ABA teams. Players in both leagues stated at the same time that they opposed the merger because it would move competitive bidding for their services. Although a championship game between the two leagues was not discussed, the parties agreed to play inter-league preseason games during the fall.[44]
  • Serial killer Carroll Cole committed the first of 15 strangulation murders of women over a period of more than nine years, starting with Essie Buck, whom he picked up at a bar in San Diego.[45] Arrested in 1980, Cole would be executed by lethal injection in Nevada on December 6, 1985.[46]
  • Died: Ranada Prasad Shaha, 74, Pakistani Bengali philanthropist and businessman, was taken from his home by the Pakistani Army, along with his 3-year old grandson. Their bodies have never been found. Forty-eight years later, Mahbubur Rahman, would be convicted of participating in Shaha's murder.[47]

May 8, 1971 (Saturday)

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  • Mariner 8 was launched by the United States from Cape Kennedy on a mission to Mars at 8:11 p.m. local time (0111 UTC 9 May), but a malfunction of the Centaur rocket's upper stage caused the launch vehicle to tumble out of control slightly less than five minutes later, before it could reach orbit.[48][49]
  • A 24-hour truce began between the combatants in the Vietnam War at noon to allow the festival celebrations in both North Vietnam and South Vietnam of the birthday of Gautama Buddha.[50]
  • Arsenal won the FA Cup final in extra time, 2 to 1 over Liverpool at Wembley Stadium, with Charlie George scoring the winning goal in the 21st minute of play after the game was drawn 1 to 1 at the end of 90 minutes.[51] It was only the second time in the 20th century that an English team had completed the double (finishing in first place in the Football League First Division and winning the FA Cup). On May 3, Arsenal had finished the season with 29 wins, seven draws and six losses.[52]
  • In Long Beach, California, the former British ocean liner RMS Queen Mary, which took passengers on cruises in 1967 began its first day as a tourist attraction, initially limited to taking customers on walking tours of the ship.[53]

May 9, 1971 (Sunday)

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Peace Candle

May 10, 1971 (Monday)

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  • Kosmos 419, the Soviet Union's probe intended to explore Mars, reached Earth orbit but the incorrect setting of a timer on an engine kept it from leaving the parking orbit. Kosmos 419 fell out of orbit two days later. A subsequent investigation showed that a ground control operator had incorrectly entered the 8-digit code that would have ignited the Blok D upper stage.[58] The failure came two days after the unsuccessful launch of the American Mariner 8 probe to Mars.
  • Fifty-nine of the 70 people aboard a bus operating near Gapyeong in South Korea were killed when the vehicle ran off of a 30 feet (9.1 m) cliff and fell into the Chongpyong Reservoir.[59] According to police, the driver was speeding and, at 8:55 in the morning, struck a large rock, causing him to lose control and end up at the bottom of the 60 feet (18 m) deep lake.
  • Born: Doris Neuner, Austrian luger and former Olympic champion[60]

May 11, 1971 (Tuesday)

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  • Dallas restaurant operator Mariano Martinez invented the process that would make the frozen margarita "America's most popular cocktail".[61] Adapting a soft-serve ice cream machine to hold gallons of pre-made frozen margarita mix, Martinez was able to serve margaritas that evening as soon as they were ordered, eliminating the process where each individual drink had to be made in a blender.
  • The Daily Sketch, Britain's oldest tabloid newspaper, ceased publication after 62 years.[62][63]
  • Gamma, the Netherlands-based chain of hardware stores, opened its first store, based in the city of Breda.[64]
  • Born: Yang Yuying, Chinese pop music singer and actress; in Nanchang, Jiangxi province
  • Died: Seán Lemass, 72, former Taoiseach of Ireland[65]

May 12, 1971 (Wednesday)

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May 13, 1971 (Thursday)

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  • More than 800 civilians were murdered in an attack by the Pakistani Army and vigilante groups on the Bangladesh village of Baushgari in the Demra district.[70] Matiur Rahman Nizami would be executed on May 11, 2016 for planning the massacre.[71]
  • The government of the Soviet Union decreed a change of boundaries between its constituent republics, announcing that part of the northeast Uzbek SSR's Sirdaryo Region had been transferred to the south central Kazakh SSR to become part of that republic's Chimkent Oblast.[72] Although Article 14 of the Soviet Constitution required that transfers of territory between any of its 15 republics would require the legislatures of both areas affected, no prior notice was given of the boundary revision, which came in the form of a decree published on the front page of Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, the Russian language daily newspaper of Kazakhstan.
  • Argentina's government health agency PAMI (Programa de Atención Médica Integral) was created by order of President Alejandro Agustin Lanusse.[73]
  • Karl Schiller replaced Alex Möller as Minister of Finance in West Germany, after being called in by Chancellor Willy Brandt to respond to a worldwide economic crisis and the erosion of the value of the West German deutschmark.[74]
  • Born: Espen Lind, Norwegian songwriter, producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, in Tromsø
  • Died: Virginia O'Hanlon, 81, retired American schoolteacher who became famous in 1897 for her letter to the New York Sun that was responded to in the famous essay by editor Francis Pharcellus Church, "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus" [75]

May 14, 1971 (Friday)

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  • Egypt's President Anwar Sadat addressed the nation on television and on radio and announced that he had fired seven members of his cabinet (including his War Minister, Mohammed Fawzi, and his Interior Minister and deputy premier, Sharaway Gomaa), along with three members of the eight-man leadership of Egypt's lone political party, the Arab Socialist Union (ASU).[76] Confirming that General Fawzi had been placed under house arrest, Sadat then went on to charge that his political opponents had planned a coup d'etat against him, in addition to wiretapping his office and attempting to disrupt the carrying out of his orders, and that new elections would be held for the ASU "from the base to the top". Sadat's "Corrective Movement" (harakat al-tasbbib), began the next day.[77]
  • Thirty-seven soldiers of the Armed Forces of Honduras presidential honor guard died suddenly after being served poorly prepared fruits that had been sprayed with Parathion, a highly toxic insecticide. The lives of others were saved by physicians and medical technicians who were rushed in with a parathion antidote from a U.S. Army hospital in Panama.[78]
  • At Goteborg in Sweden, a fiery explosion onboard the Norwegian freighter MV Stavanger killed 11 workers and injured 33.[79] The blast was believed to have been caused by a leak of acetylene gas in a welder's torch.
  • Pope Paul VI issued the Apostolic Letter Octogesima adveniens (Latin for "Eightieth Anniversary") to Cardinal Maurice Roy, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity and of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum.[80][81]
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  • Died: Heinz Richter, 61, German radio engineer and author

May 15, 1971 (Saturday)

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  • Thirteen people were killed in an accident while attending a wedding reception in the French village of Sallen in Normandy, when the floor of the hall collapsed and guests fell into the cellar below, where they either drowned in an unused well, or were asphyxiated as other people landed on top of them. The mayor of Sallen, who had given permission for the hall to be used, committed suicide on May 31.[82]
  • Two weeks after winning the Kentucky Derby, Venezuelan racehorse Canonero II won the Preakness Stakes, setting a record of completing the one and 3/16ths mile race in 1 minute, 54 seconds, and raising the possibility that a horse would win the U.S. triple crown for the first time in more than 20 years.[83]
  • Died: Sir Tyrone Guthrie, 70, Anglo-Irish theatrical director [84]

May 16, 1971 (Sunday)

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  • The price of mailing a letter in the United States increased by one-third, with a price rise from 6 cents to 8 cents. The new 8¢ stamp had a portrait of the later U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower similar to that of the 6¢ stamp issued in 1970.[85]
  • Born: Simon Katz, English songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
  • Died: Sir Collier Cudmore, 85, Australian lawyer, politician and Olympic champion rower

May 17, 1971 (Monday)

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May 18, 1971 (Tuesday)

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May 19, 1971 (Wednesday)

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The Soviet Mars 2 stamp
  • Mars 2 was launched by the Soviet Union on the first interplanetary mission to land a spacecraft on Mars.[98] The probe reached Mars on November 27, but the descent module entered the Martian atmosphere at a steeper angle than planned and crashed on the surface.[99]
  • By an overwhelming margin, the U.S. Senate voted 58 to 37 against a proposal, approved earlier by the House of Representatives, that would have revived funding of the American supersonic transport (SST) program for Boeing's design of a high-speed aircraft.[100]
  • Canada and the Soviet Union signed an amity agreement on the first full day of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's visit to Moscow. The pact, drafted secretly, was signed by Trudeau and Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and called for regular high level meetings in the interests of "friendship, good-neighborliness and mutual confidence".[101]
  • Died: Ogden Nash, 68, American poet and humorist [102]

May 20, 1971 (Thursday)

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May 21, 1971 (Friday)

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May 22, 1971 (Saturday)

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Nixon and LBJ at the library

May 23, 1971 (Sunday)

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May 24, 1971 (Monday)

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May 25, 1971 (Tuesday)

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May 26, 1971 (Wednesday)

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  • Qantas, the Australian airline, agreed to pay AUS$500,000 (Australian dollars, equivalent to $560,000 U.S.[122]) to a bomb hoaxer-extortionist, Peter Macari, who identified himself only as "Mr. Brown" and who had announced that he had hidden an explosive on Qantas Flight 755.[123] The Boeing 707 had departed Sydney at 11:30 a.m. to Hong Kong, and had 116 passengers and 12 crew aboard. The threat was not entirely unfounded, in that Macari had built a working prototype of a gelignite bomb and directed police to an airport locker at the Sydney International Airport. Connected to an altimeter, the bomb was designed to activate once the aircraft reached a designated altitude and to detonate when the jet descended to 5,000 feet (1,500 m). After defusing the bomb in the locker and replacing the connection to an indicator light, police then tested the prototype on a flight and found that the light activated at 5,000 feet. After Macari received the payoff, he called again and told police "There is no bomb aboard the plane. You can land her safely." Macari would be arrested on August 4, along with an accomplice.[124]
  • American serial killer Juan Corona, who had stabbed 25 victims to death in less than three months since February 26, was arrested at his home in Yuba City, California after police found the bodies of 12 migrant workers buried in individual graves.[125]
  • Police in mainland Italy exiled 18 reputed leaders of the Italian Mafia to the tiny island of Filicudi, with 270 residents at the time, located 35 miles (56 km) north of the island of Sicily and 13 miles (21 km) from the closest land, the island of Santa Maria Salina. About one-quarter of the residents moved away within days after the accused criminals arrived.[126] By May 31, the remaining residents left in protest, with the exception of the exiles and the police guarding them.[127] The previous week, 17 Mafiosi had been exiled to the small island of Linosa, located between Sicily and the African nation of Tunisia.[126] On June 6, after public criticism of the fate of Filicudi Island, the Italian government agreed to move the Mafiosi elsewhere.[128]
  • Born: Matt Stone, American TV producer and co-creator of South Park
  • Died: Laurence Wild, 81, former Governor of American Samoa

May 27, 1971 (Thursday)

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May 28, 1971 (Friday)

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  • Portugal resigned from UNESCO.[132]
  • A Berlin-based CV-990A operated by Modern Air Transport, with 45 passengers on board, was unexpectedly denied permission to enter Bulgarian airspace, as a result of a new policy adopted by that country's then communist government to deny any aircraft whose flight had originated or was going to terminate at a West Berlin airport the right to take off and land at any of its airports. The plane landed safely back at Berlin's Tegel Airport.[133]
 
Audie Murphy

May 29, 1971 (Saturday)

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May 30, 1971 (Sunday)

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U.S. Mars probe Mariner 9
  • Mariner 9 was launched by the U.S. toward Mars at 6:32 p.m. local time from Cape Kennedy, 11 days after the Soviet Union had launched Mars 2.[139] On November 14, it became the first spacecraft from Earth to orbit another planet, when it reached Mars and took photographs, but no attempt to land a probe was made.
  • The Battle of Snuol, fought in Cambodia between Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN, South Vietnamese) and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) troops since January 5, ended when the South Vietnamese forces left the area in a predetermined manoeuvre due to the upcoming rainy season in the area.[140]
  • About 1,000 people who attended a concert of the Grateful Dead at the Winterland Auditorium in San Francisco sought medical attention after having ingested LSD from apple cider that had been passed around the crowd.[141]
  • Born: Duncan Jones, British film director, as Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones to singer David Bowie and his partner, Angie Jones [142]
  • Died: Marcel Dupré, 85, French organist, pianist and composer

May 31, 1971 (Monday)

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  • Beginning with 1971, a three-day Memorial Day Weekend became an annual observance within the U.S. federal government and by nearly all of the U.S. states, as the scheduled Memorial Day was fixed permanently for federal agencies as the last Monday in May, pursuant to the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, Public Law 90-363. From 1868 to 1970, Memorial Day (formerly "Decoration Day") had been observed on May 30, regardless of what day of the week it fell upon.[143]
  • The government of South Vietnam announced that it had compiled a list of 660 "sick or wounded" prisoners of war for repatriation to North Vietnam, pursuant to an agreement between the two warring nations, but that 647 of the 660 informed the Saigon government that they did not want to go back to the north.[144] At the time, the U.S. had a list of 339 Americans known to be prisoners of war in the north and had seen the repatriation of the North Vietnamese as a first step in securing the release of the U.S. POWs. The 13 who did agree to go boarded the transport ship USS Upshur on June 3, but were told by the Hanoi government that they could not come back to North Vietnam.[145]

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